The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.